UI Resource Parity Cleanup

UI Resource Parity Cleanup

Status: docs-ready UI cleanup lane. No gameplay source changed by this page.

Use this page when deciding whether the current UI/Rsc issues are broken live features, safe cleanup, or branch-only fixes. It consolidates the stale upgrade dialog, Economy IDC drift, and duplicate IDD findings so future work does not re-audit them separately.

Canonical owner pages:

• Runtime map: Client UI systems atlas
• Duplicate IDD repair details: UI IDD collision repair
• Risk register: Feature status register
• Stale-code evidence: Dead code and stale code register

Current Parity Matrix

Item	Current docs/source Chernarus	Maintained Vanilla Takistan	origin/master / miksuu/master	origin/release/2026-06-feature-bundle Chernarus	Release Vanilla	Development meaning
Stale RscMenu_Upgrade	Present at Rsc/Dialogs.hpp:2425; onLoad points to missing Client/GUI/GUI_Menu_Upgrade.sqf at :2428; old wf_*.paa icons are referenced at :2644-2831.	Same stale class, missing controller and wf_*.paa block at Rsc/Dialogs.hpp:2644-2831.	Same stale class in Chernarus (Dialogs.hpp:2435) and Vanilla.	Removed; only live WFBE_UpgradeMenu remains.	Still present at Dialogs.hpp:2435.	Treat the old class as stale. Prefer consistent removal or explicit compatibility alias, then smoke live WFBE_UpgradeMenu.
Economy stale control writes	GUI_Menu_Economy.sqf:7-8 writes 23004, 23005, 23006, but RscMenu_Economy declares 23002, 23003, 23008-23016 (Dialogs.hpp:3327-3408).	Same stale writes and declared-control shape.	Same stale writes (GUI_Menu_Economy.sqf:7-8).	Rewritten away from the stale writes; uses display controls 23002 and 23020 (GUI_Menu_Economy.sqf:4,23).	Still uses stale writes at :7-8.	Port/compare the release Chernarus shape or remove/update the stale writes consistently across maintained roots. Smoke Economy disabled state, income controls, sell mode and supply-truck respawn.
EASA/Economy duplicate dialog IDD	RscMenu_EASA and RscMenu_Economy both use idd = 23000 (Dialogs.hpp:3209-3211, :3287-3289).	Same duplicate.	Same duplicate in Chernarus (Dialogs.hpp:3265-3267, :3343-3345) and Vanilla.	Chernarus EASA moved to idd = 24000 (Dialogs.hpp:2860-2862); Economy remains 23000 (:2938-2940).	Still duplicate (Dialogs.hpp:3294-3296, :3372-3374).	Parity cleanup or formal waiver. No current source findDisplay 23000 caller was found, but future dialog work should not rely on duplicated display IDs.
RscOverlay/OptionsAvailable duplicate title IDD	Both use 10200 (Rsc/Titles.hpp:44-46, :164-165).	Same duplicate.	Same duplicate.	Same duplicate.	Same duplicate.	Keep separate from EASA/Economy. Fix only with RHUD/action-icons/endgame display-handle smoke because title ownership also shares uiNamespace["currentCutDisplay"].

Source Evidence

• Live upgrade path: WFBE_UpgradeMenu loads Client/GUI/GUI_UpgradeMenu.sqf (Rsc/Dialogs.hpp:4-7), and the main menu opens it with createDialog "WFBE_UpgradeMenu" (Client/GUI/GUI_Menu.sqf:165).
• Old upgrade path: no Client/GUI/GUI_Menu_Upgrade.sqf exists in current Chernarus or maintained Vanilla, and no Client/Images/wf_*.paa files exist under current Chernarus Client/Images.
• Stale upgrade icon block: current Chernarus and maintained Vanilla both reference missing Client\Images\wf_b.paa, wf_lvf.paa, wf_hvf.paa, wf_air.paa, wf_par.paa, wf_uav.paa, wf_sup.paa, wf_fia.paa, wf_lif.paa, wf_fla.paa, wf_art.paa, wf_mib.paa, wf_fas.paa, wf_gea.paa, wf_amm.paa, wf_eas.paa, wf_pas.paa and wf_shl.paa from Rsc/Dialogs.hpp:2644,2655,2666,2677,2688,2699,2710,2721,2732,2743,2754,2765,2776,2787,2798,2809,2820,2831; rg --files found none of those filenames anywhere in the repo.
• Resolved resource contrast: Rsc/Ressources.hpp:300,302,304 references Client\Images\ui_button_main_over.paa, ui_button_main_focus.paa and ui_button_main_down.paa, and those files exist in current Chernarus, so they are not part of the missing wf_*.paa cleanup.
• Economy declared controls: current RscMenu_Economy declares 23002, 23003, 23008, 23009, 23010, 23011, 23012, 23013, 23014, 23015, 23016, not 23004-23006.
• Display lookup caveat: current source searches found no findDisplay 23000 or findDisplay 10200 caller under Missions / Missions_Vanilla, so duplicate IDD cleanup is maintenance/future-proofing rather than a proven live lookup bug.

Recommended Patch Order

1. Remove or explicitly alias stale RscMenu_Upgrade across source Chernarus and maintained Vanilla.
2. Normalize Economy controller/control-map parity across source Chernarus and maintained Vanilla, using release Chernarus as comparison evidence.
3. Give EASA and Economy distinct dialog IDDs across both maintained roots, or record a deliberate waiver.
4. Handle title IDD/display ownership as a separate patch: RscOverlay, OptionsAvailable, RHUD/action icons and EndOfGameStats must be smoked together.

Do not combine this lane with Economy authority, EASA balance generation, upgrade-request authority, or commander-economy redesign. Those are behavior/security lanes; this one is UI resource parity and smoke.

Validation

Source checks:

• No stale RscMenu_Upgrade class remains, or it is explicitly an alias to the live WFBE_UpgradeMenu.
• Economy controller writes only declared controls.
• EASA/Economy have distinct dialog idd values, or the waiver is documented.
• No new hard-coded findDisplay 23000 / findDisplay 10200 assumptions are introduced.

Arma smoke:

• Live upgrade menu opens, lists upgrades, and sends RequestUpgrade as before.
• Economy opens as commander and non-commander; disabled state, income slider, sell mode and supply-truck respawn controls behave as expected.
• EASA opens from service menu and applies/returns correctly.
• RHUD/FPS HUD, action icons and endgame stat bars still display without title-handle flicker.

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